Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d675c7f7b12219fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:32:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2bd06b8e2064923f53fdc2ba70463a5e SHA-1: ebf76147f02ad7fc73f33a66b7aa503db98acb4c SHA-256: d675c7f7b12219fa37251c70fcc6feceea33573eac4336b8ae234efe519ada17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised sites strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d501f48ad0---muvesiraguz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/751d818013defe29a4fa7fc28b763b5f/poxuravukovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7614f004e3---89920702804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/jetelonigadenalegigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/sovagoliriwodiramufozaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d19964819---vibosilediditujelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4af1f043a---gekodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/995rc25d6piiflrrb63goop621/jebejimaxutonulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanxuattrucauthangkinh.com/Images_upload/files/24782796528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfi80pfogebrghjp976gpesuan/tafarinagizisulabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8162498a2---zikopined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/44779279234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce3a88ede577e447cb8d17ab1530d339/sigumuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vufututasiluneziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/nugowirazaduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34df6d296d268fba3b9d4b0a1a615c1a/94390285828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3d0d474cac---jalagisebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criminisiepartners.it/userfiles/files/lozopugelalibawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55f1059f5d4bac387537583a983c81a/59368896697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/29818762514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0930add5---gumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/22860933077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=consolidate+data+in+excel+from+multiple+worksheetsPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD883 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF095 18176 bytes
SHA-256: 4add0f431e42a832d7c31c64bd52bf33d9d9202ebfe3b404c4de9ca0ebc98d4c
font_02_sfnt_off00011f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2F 11296 bytes
SHA-256: e661b6f3fd13f10109564ef64edfd8efff228a21aff3476ffbba602d73205e77